Union Minister
of Tourism & Culture, Shri Jagmohan said that Government
is considering a proposal to seek statutory status for the National
Council of Hotel Management in order to bring it at par with
other technical institutes. He stated that the issue will be
taken up at an appropriate level to turn it into reality. He
was speaking at the foundation stone laying ceremony of the
Council’s headquarter at Noida today.
Addressing the
gathering, the Minister said that the Council is playing a key
role in providing a modern and model training system to meet
the varied and changing manpower needs for different segments
of the hotel and catering industry and co-ordinating growth
and development of Hotel and Catering Management education in
the country. He expressed happiness over the fact that starting
with four institutes the number has risen to 24 and 9 food crafts
institutes offering 11 different training programmes in this
specialised field.
He stated that
the new headquarters at Noida will facilitate the Council to
pursue with full force its developmental plans towards comprehensive
training and education in tune with industry manpower requirements
to meet the challenges of time. He informed that once this structure
comes up, the Masters level programmes in Hospitality with provisions
for specialisation will be started and the students will not
be required to go abroad for the higher technical education,
training and research work.
Speaking on the
occasion, Secretary, Tourism & Culture Smt. Rathi Vinay
Jha said that the Council is an important milestone in the development
of hotel management education and research in the country. She
commended the Council for its expertise in drawing the attention
of other countries to whom the Council renders technical assistance
for setting up institutes of hotel management for impart of
appropriate training in the Hospitality service sector.
The National Council
for Hotel Management was set up by the Ministry of Tourism in
the year 1982 for development of human resources for the hotel
and catering industry. The Ministry has acquired 15 acres land
at Sector 62 Noida to establish a Tourism Education Grid. A
total of Rs.10.51 crores for the Council’s headquarter building
project has been allocated by the Ministry of Tourism for the
purpose. An amount of Rs.3.7 crore has already been released
towards the land cost.
